Kitchen utensil bracket



Sept. 19, 1939. J EWAN 2,173,159

KITCHEN UTENSIL BRAGKET Filed Jan. 16, 1939 Patented Sept. 19, 1939 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE KITCHEN UTENSIL BRACKET corporation of Illinois Application January 16, 1939, Serial N0. 251,111

3 Claims.

This invention relates to kitchen utensil brackets and has for its principal object to provide an improved bracket by which a kitchen 1itensil may be securely mounted upon I;he kitchen wall.

A further object of the invention is to provide an improved kitchen utensll bracket by means of which the kitchen utensil, when not in use, can be easily dismounted from its horizontal position and hung against the wall out of the way.

Further objects, advantages and capabilities of I;he invention will appear from the following description of a preferred embodiment thereof, taken in conjunction with the acompanying drawing, in which:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the kitchen utensil bracket as employed as a mounting for a canopener, with the kitchen utensil in operating position;

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the kitchen utensil bracket when the kitchen utensil is removed from operating position and the bracket employed as' a hanger for the kitchen utensil;

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary plan view ofthe bracket with the parts in the same positions as in Fig. 1 taken from line 3-3 in Fig. l;

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary plan view of the bracket with the parts in the same position as-ln Fig. 2 taken from line 4--4 in Fig. 2;

Fig. 5 is a sectional elevation taken on the line 5--5 of Fig. l;

Fig. 6 is a perspective view of the wall-plate which forms a part of the bracket.

Referr'mg to the drawing, the referenc'e numeral I0 designates the wall-plate, best shown in Fig. 6'. This plate is formed with a fiat back II trapezoidal in shape and perforated at I2 so that it may be screwed to the wall, indicated by the dotted line 9 in Figs. 1 and 2. Both side edges of the wall-plate are bent over to form channels I3. These channels, because -of the shape of the wall-plate, approach each other and form a dovetailed recess with its narrower portion at the lower and of the wall-plate.

The kitchen utensil, which for convenience is shown in Figs. 1 and 2 as a can-opener I4 has a horizontal frame I5 terminating in a flat vertical tenon-plate IG. This platze is of dovctail shape and of a size so that it may be embraced by the fianges I3 of the wall-plate, as shown in Figs. 1. 3 and 5.

The vertical tenonplate I6 has a notch I1 cut into each side edge near the bottom of the plate. These notches, shown in Fig. 5 divide each side edge of the tenon-plate into a fiange I9 above the notch I'I and a small spur I8 ab each of the lower corners of the wall-plate. These spurs are approximately square in section so that they may be received within the channels I3 with the tenon-plate I6 in either vertical position, as shown in Figs. 1, 3 and 5, or in horizontal position, as shown in Figs. 2 and. 4.

The wall-plate I0 is normally fastened to the wall and flat against it in a. vertical position. as shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

When the kitchen utensil is to be used in the normal manner of its use, the tenon-plate I0 is dropped between the channels I3 01 the wallplate I0. The channels I3 closely embrace the platze I6 and securely retain lt so that the kitchen utensil may be operated as if directly fastened to the wall. In use the kitchen utensil projects some distance from the wall, where it is exposed to contact and possible damage and where it may injure a person who bumps into lt.

When the kitchen utensll has been used it may be liited until flanges I9 and notches I'l in the tenon-plate I6 are clear of t;he upper ends of the channels I3 and only the spurs I8 remaln within the channels. If the end cf the kltchen utensil farthest from the Wall is then tilted downward, the kitchen utensil will drop through a right angle about the spurs I8 as pivots and the spurs will remain withln the channels I3. The kitchen utensil will thus be hung upon the wallplate I0 and against the Wall 9 as shown in Fig. 2.

T0 restore the kitchen utensil to operating position it need only be swung upwards through a right, angle about the spurs I8 as pivots, until the flanges I9 can drup into the channelsv I3.

Although the invention has been disclosed in connection with the specific details of prefer'red embodments thereof, lt; must be understood that such details are not intended to be limitatlve of the invention except insofar as set forth in the accompanying claims.

Havlng thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

l. A kitchen-utensil bracket comprising a vertical wall-plate with channelsthereon, a tenonplate for reception within said channels, said tenon-plate having each side edge notched so as to form a flange thereon and a spur thereon.

2. A kitchemutensil bracket comprising a vertical wall-plate, channels thereon, a tenon-plate for reception within said channels, and spurs on said tenon-plate for retention within said channe1s when said tenon-plate is removed therefrom.

3. A kitchen-utensil bracket comprising a. wallplate, a channel on each side edge thereof, a tenon-plate for reception between said wall-plate channels. spurs on said tenon-pla'e whereby said tenon-plate can be hung from said weh-platze With only said spurs between said waIl-plate channels.

JOSEPH EDGAR EWAN. 

